How about setting it such that those with N*B can target retired characters? Though flooding the pool with equipment/tattoo-less characters might have some undesirable consequences, I'd welcome the newfound abundance of relatively low power targets.

Leave the regeneration based on highest character. All the active players would simply retire their characters again. Ultimately, the only change in the system would be that the characters of all retired players would be open to target.

I don't believe Obsterical intended for this thread to be of the abolishment of retirement, merely the increase of the number of targets by recovering some retired ones.

I imagine that the purpose of retirement in the first place was to ease the burden on the servers, and for active players to store characters away while embarking on a NCB run. Unretiring through a certain range of PR/MPR would not stress the server more than the active players did during CB's prime levels (Of course, I have no way of actually knowing this), and the matter concerning active players has been addressed.

It's not terribly important to increase the amount of targets but if it weren't for equipment loans, I would have no more 2 targets at 100% challenge bonus just 13 days into my N*B.

A final note, if we're speaking of the founder's intentions, it's highly unlikely that he foresaw the stagnation of CB during the original designing.

P.S. The main idea however is that the score system is heavily biasedfor teams that are actively fighting, especially in the lower power ranges. A score system redesign would also need to happen alongside anything else that might get done.

A quick and dirty shortcut would be to freeze the score of NPC targets to an appropriately high level, but that has some potentially unfairly advantageous side-effects for some people.

There are 3 main reasons characters get retired. Players retire them either for space and/or for the ba regen in order to run a ncb. Otherwise characters will get auto retired if their score drops too far relative to their MPR.

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